The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
by Thich Nhat Hanh
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Book Reviews of The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Book Review: Highly recommend this helpful book
Summary: 5 Stars
While this is a great book for anyone interested in meditation, I highly recommend it to people in recovery from the effects of trauma.
The concept of mindfulness was first introduced to me in therapy, due to years of PTSD symptoms. This book was an enormous help and has aided in my healing. Thich Nhat Hahn teaches, through anecdotes, short stories and exercises, how to be self-aware and mentally present in day-to-day life. For anyone who's experienced severe trauma, you know that mental escape can be a more desirable way of living, especially when dealing with flashbacks & nightmares. I've learned from this book how to live in the moment and also how to create a feeling of calm/relaxation even when I am triggered. I never thought it would be possible, but with practice, it is.
Book Review: Essense of Meditation Explained Here
Summary: 5 Stars
I am still working on doing what is written in this book. Though all the concepts explained are simple, I find it hard to practice. Only repetitive and persistent effort within our lives can bring us true benefit of meditation. All the book is saying is to focus on our breath. I am still working on returning to the basic - a simple breath. It is so easy to get preoccupied with normal busy thoughts, forgetting the basic of the basic - breathing.
This book is something I need to read and re-read once in a while to get myself back to the basic. Now I realize that if I cannot live a basic life I cannot truly live a life. It took a while for me to know that this book is telling me something fundamental to all humans.
Book Review: Recipe for Peace
Summary: 5 Stars
Finally a book with exercises and explanations that actually work. As a Vietnam combat veteran, twice wounded, who had to make casualty calls when I returned stateside, forty years of anger and PTSD have finally found their match in "The Miracle of Mindfulness."
Today, when thousands of Iraqi and Gulf War veterans begin to realize they need a remedy to their troubles, I recommend this book number one as well as several other of Thich Nhat Hanh's books.
How ironic--A Vietnamese Buddhist responds and provides peace to a veteran who helped bomb and destroy his people and his country.
Fred Tomasello Jr.
Book Review: A classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
In a simple, yet profound, way...almost conversational....the author helps the reader to answer questions like "Am I here now?", "Am I actually aware of what I am doing?", "Are my body and my mind in the same place?". He uses simple illustrations, such as washing dishes or walking up a hill, to help the reader become aware of his own actions.
The book is a useful adjunct to other mindfulness and meditation books, as well, I think, as cognitive therapy (rational-emotive therapy).
It's a book to own, to live with, to go back to...to give and to recommend.
Book Review: An excellent book full of compassion and wisdom
Summary: 5 Stars
Thich Nhat Hanh provides you with wonderful advice on how to increase your awareness and mindfulness about the joys and beauty of everyday life. The Miracle of Mindfulness is a terrific book that gives you ways to exercise your mind and awareness in everyday situations. It gives wonderful meditation exercises for those that would like an enlightening experience without a lot of mystic or religious teachings thrown in, and who are perhaps too busy to spend an hour everyday in meditation. For me, it was a life-changing book.